Skee attachment



S. HOLMGREN.

SKEE ATTACHMENT.

. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 7, 1920.

Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

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PATENT OFFICE.

SWAN HOLMGBEN, OF MILLTOWN, WISCONSIN.

SKEE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

Application filed. February 7, 1920. Serial No. 357,101.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SWAN HOLMGREN, a citizen of the United States, residin at Milltown, in the county of Polk and tate of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Skee Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to attachments for skees, and the object is to provide a pair of skees with a seat connecting them and means for propelling and for steering the coasting device thus formed.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 1 is a detail top view of certain parts of the device. Fig. 5 is a side view of the staff by which the device is pushed forward.

Referrin to the drawing by reference numerals, 6 designates a pair of skees with their usual toe straps removed and my new attachment secured upon them. Said de vice comprises two metal plates 7, secured one upon the middle of each skee by screws 8. Each of said plates is provided with a bracket 9 and an upstanding arm 10.

Pivoted at '10" to the brackets 9 are the legs 11 of a horizontal bridge bar 12, which thus connect the skees together as a pair of runners. Pivoted at 13 upon the middle of the bridge 12 is a cleat 14, upon which a seat 15 is secured.

The cleat is provided with two bolts 16 having elongated eyes 1'7, in which engage elongated eyes 17 of two light metal rods, 18, whose front ends are provided wlth eyes 19, retained upon the front tips 20 of the skees by pins 21 or other suitable means.

22 are foot rests which may be secured on the arms 10 or other suitable part of the frame work. The upper ends of the rocker armslO are pivoted at 23 to the ends of a front cross bar 24:, which bar is provided with two forwardly directed pegs 25.

In Fig. 5 the stafi 26 is provided in its lower end with a prong 27, and some distance therefrom with a cone-shaped collar 28, having a sharp edge 29 by which to engage in the snow.

In the operation the occupant of the seat 15 takes hold of the staff 26 and, leaning forward some, he reciprocates with one or both hands the staff 26 in about the position shown in Fig. 2, so that either the prong 27 or the cone engages the icy or snowy ground and after each rearward push is pulled forward again. During such operation' the feet of the rider may rest upon the arms 22, or if he is a large person he may let the feet rest upon the skees near in front of the plates 7.

If during the propelling forward on about level ground, or 1n coasting down a hill side, it be desired to steer to either right or left, the operator, having one of his lower limbs engaged between the egs 25, presses to the desired side and therelay causes the arms 10 to tilt both skees laterally at the joints 10*, whereby the curves 6 of the skees steer the skees to the desired side. During such tilting of the skees the elongated eyes 17, 17 permit the rods 18 to adjust their lengths automatically as may be required for tilting. In general the rods 18 serve as braces to aid in preventing undue spreading of the front ends of the skees.

The device as a whole is especially adapted for riding on ordinary snow-covered roads in the tracks of sleighs. But it is also interesting for coasting purposes because the skees will not sink in loose snow nearly as much as will the ordinary coasting sleds. It is alsoadapted for exercise and pleasure on ice covered bodies of water especially if there is some snow on the ice.

lVhat I claim is:

1. The combination with a pair of spaced skees of a transversely arranged frame having legs pivotally connected to the skees, and a seat upon said frame, two rocker arms fixed one upon each skee, a horizontal bar pivoted with its ends to the rocker arms and having means for one of the lower limbs of a person occupying the seat to engage and tilt or roll in unison the skees to either side and thereby steer them, and means for propelling the device forward.

2. The structure specified in claim 1, said seat being pivoted to swivel in horizontal plane upon the frame, and having bracing rods extended from it and pivoted to the front points of the skees.

3. The structure specified in claim 2, said bracing rods having at the seat slidable joints permitting automatic shortening of the rods when the skees are being tilted.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

SWAN HOLMGREN. 

